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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1897
Page
7
A humorist reports experiments with iced tea and animal harm, then extols Postum as a safe coffee substitute. The article promotes a grain based beverage by Postum Cereal Co. of Battle Creek Michigan as nourishing, coffee like in color and suitable for children at breakfast.
The Divine Healer Schrader has established headquarters at 91 Summer Street Boston healing the sick from 8 to 1 and 2 to 5 daily Saturdays 7 to 9. Crowds gathered yesterday as skeptics and believers queued for his blessing and handkerchiefs. He visits Lowell and Manchester before returning to Boston and accepts gifts to cover his expenses.
United States Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina spoke at the third annual Peoples party banquet in Arcade Hall Boston, urging farmers and manufacturers to unite on finance and tariff policy. He argued trusts stem from monopoly and that gold standard and free trade threaten American industry.
R G Dun weekly review notes modest improvements in major industries yet overall business remains disappointing. Export demand shifts and war duration expectations depress grain trade. Cotton rises on speculative pressure while floods delay relief. Publicacts show slower iron and steel, steadier boot and shoe orders, and mixed leather markets amid rising imports and persistent debt.
A large party of Somerville school teachers traveled on the Fall River line to Washington for several days of sightseeing. Sub-Master Howard W. Poor led the group from the English High School and accompanied numerous named teachers and staff members on the trip.
In Middlesex Superior Court the widow of Frank B. Hayes testified at length about their marriage in 1888 and its tumult. She described travel from Boston to Europe, financial strains, and Hayes's drinking, noting a separation and events around the birth of their child before the session adjourned.
President George B Perry of the Victorian Diamond Festival Association reports to Queen Victoria about the Boston celebration set for June 21. The Queen, replying from Cimiez France, expresses pleasure that British born Massachusetts residents will honor her sixty years on the throne and sends a greeting read at the banquet. She agrees to provide a portrait and autograph for the art souvenir. An ex-officer of the British navy and member of the British Charitable Society offers to cover the full cost of inviting 37 British army and navy veterans, including veterans from campaigns forty years ago.
Incendiary fire struck the Downey Ice Company buildings on the corner of Lake and Kendall streets in Brighton last night, the third attempt in two weeks. The blaze caused $115 damage to ice worth 169 tons plus tools. the Smith heirs own the property, leased to the Downey Ice Company.
The Maher Sharkey match is set for June in New York City with a $12,000 purse. Manager Buck Connolly confirmed the arrangement and declined to name the club that secured the bout.
Mrs John A Gentle of Fort Fairfield Maine reports a seven year battle with scrofula ended by seven bottles of Ayer s Sarsaparilla after other doctors and remedies failed. The testimonial is presented as a reader endorsement of the product.
Captain Lauriks of the White Bicycle Club plans a 390 mile attempt from Boston using the Newburyport course starting at midnight a week from today. He aims to complete the first 100 miles in six hours and reach a 22 hour total, with pacemakers rotating every 25 miles.
The South Boston Improvement Association held a large meeting in St. Omer's Hall with about 400 attendees. Hon. Thomas J. Gargan spoke on subway needs and public sentiment for neighborhood improvements in South Boston.
Police commissioners opened a new year for liquor licenses with 993 licenses to decide. 974 renewals were granted while five were refused including Hotel Vesuvius and Hotel Stirling. Mrs Solari and Mrs Corcoran faced hearings amid rivalry and public scrutiny in East Boston and Brighton.
About twenty Cambridge women from the Cambridge Girls social group dined at the United States Hotel last evening. Toasts honored Harvard, the Boys, She Girls, the Chaperone, Cambridge, and The Prospect, with Miss Alice Close presiding as toastmistress and Miss Alice McKeen as hostess.
Five year old Cecil Guinan son of George Guinan of Westfield Massachusetts drowned in the New Haven River at Bristol Vermont this afternoon. The body has not yet been recovered.
A mob of both white and black residents hanged six colored men after confessions linked to the Brenham murder and child assault. Ensuing shootout left one suspect missing, believed killed, as others were found dangling from a tree by the Brazos bottom. Local guards were overpowered during the lynching.
Mayor Pratt of Chelsea creates a controversy by sealing an appointment for registrar of voters to be opened next Tuesday. The term of J. Henry Taylor ends this morning and a fight rages between supporters of Frederick J. Hagan and others. Critics say a sealed appointment may bypass standard procedure.
A correspondent recalls twenty years of drinking and credit to his wife for a miraculous remedy. He claims Anti Jag cured him and offers to mail the product in plain wrappers from Renova Chemical Co in New York for one dollar.
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